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and I guess more significantly it would mean that a fretless would cause less wear on the fretboard if you were using coated strings. Probably easier to tell.

I had a reel to reel for recording, that was good, and a home organ that sounded like a home organ, until you put the headphone output through an overdirve pedal, then it sounded great. My first amplifier was a cassette player with a microphone input, it didn't sound very good then it got shot with an air pistol, then it sounded great, really overdriven and good. Some time later I decided that as shooting it with an air pistol made it sound great, shooting it again would probably make it sound ever greater. Sadly, that wasn't the case, it didn't sound of anything after that.

It seems that it has to cause less fret wear to have a plastic (or whatver they are coated with) contact on metal than metal on metal as some of the presure of the fretting has to be absorbed by the coating so the overall pressure on the fret must be lower.

I was talking custom shop, yes there are luthiers at fender, many of them go on to make their own companies like Suhr etc. I don't know if they have a day to day in the custom shop but they certainly exist.

Thats not unreasonable though - if you are buying a custom shop bass for 3-5k made by fender employing actual luthiers in the states, you wouldn't expect the components to be more than £500 of the actual build, as otherwise the finances don't make sense.

Aren't the pink LEDs (the old ones) actually just red LEDs in clear plastic (as opposed to a red LED in red plastic? So would be listed as Red LED in (water) clear lens?

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Remembering that you can also get charged for VAT and import fees too when buying that. I was, others weren't.

Its his, made by mansons - there is a video of them spec'ing it, a few of them building it and him picking it up. He got it when he started with Steve Hacket

Well, not Dolly Parton! I mean I wouldn't do her stuff as I don't do country music, but she does a lot of good work outside music. I do too - always felt sorry for them, they lost their royalties and their incomes and I would imagine a good part of their future prospects, when you look at groups they says 'the bass player used to be with xxx' - not such a selling point.

Well, pickup height to string gauges are the obvious changes then

we veto'd that one a while back as the singer didn't feel comfortable with it.

that's terrible. Not that it was a wake, just playing that song anyway 😂

he was never tried, MJ was.

Is this just the string, ie. Does playing a G on the bottom two strings have the same volume difference?

I was tempted by the black one that was at thomman for £325 but that is no longer available. I looked at the white one but figured I needed to get rid of some before adding a new one, and when it comes down to it, buying another 4 string just means I will have something I don't play.

It is a pain to get anything from ibanez, i never knew why they had to be so poor. To find a part really you have to find an instrument it was used on, and then look up the catalogue for that instrument, then find someone selling that part number - doable, but a bit of a pain. Without knowing the btbs that much, I don't see it shoudl be that much of an issue if you have got the correct spacing and height, although are the bridge parts sunk into the body like some of the SRs? If not it should be a simple swap as I seem to recall the tops of the btbs are largely flat. If not, its only a bit of wood, what is the worst that can happen

I think someone (maybe @Happy Jack) had one of those straps that has a part that goes over both shoulders.

No it isnt. With an active preamp you have a buffer to your signal and don't lose your high frequencies in the cable, or allow noise to be injected. You can also have more tone control if you want, but that is a secondary reason. Some people prefer the sound of their bass with the top rolled off, which is why a lot of wireless sending units have a 'cable tone' option, which gives you back that sound. But yes, as you say it is a preference.

I mod things that I have a problem with, but generally won't mod until there is a problem. I have different tuners on my main ibanez as it was headstock heavy so I put ultralites on it - It was my main gigging bass for a long time, probably still up there. I have done a few wiring changes as it is easy to do and makes a big difference, and a few preamp changes where there was an issue with the original pre-amp (which is normally a fault).

If you have already made the input active, either by the preamp or by a dual wireless sender, then yes, a passive mixer is fine, although if you are just mixing it on the board you have gained nothing from sending a stereo from the bass, If you have it still passive in the bass then you have just doubled the injected noise. And the behringer MX400 I think is a line level mixer, rather than an instrument level mixer.

Isn't that double neck in the Steve Hacket video Nicks Beggs Mason doubleneck, or do they both have an identical one?

Absolutely played it on Xanadu, while also playig the footpedals for bass

Might do - I have one, I have never tried it! No reason not to do that - that is how rickenbacker stereos are wired (except they have volume and tone)

I had the double neck ibanez (the EDS1275 copy, but bolt on), loved that thing, had to sell it when I had no money. Would still like another one but prices are crazy now. However, one day maybe I will get a 2404 guitar / bass double neck. I think if I do I would modify it to have a stereo output with the guitar on one channel and the bass on another. And move the switch that switches between the neck as that was always in a bad position. Or maybe just something from aliexpress!